Team Lotus T128 launch notes

The Team Lotus 2011 challenger T128 was launched on Monday 31st January
exclusively in Team Lotus Notes. The special launch edition of the team's
magazine has a number of first-see images of the 2011 car and insights from
key players within Team Lotus into the design and build process of the new
car, including people from the Aero, R&D and Vehicle Dynamics, Design and
Senior Management Teams.

Here are a few selected highlights, but click on the link to the launch
edition on the homepage of www.teamlotus.co.uk for the whole story.

Marianne Hinson, Head of Aerodynamics: "In aero we started thinking about
the new car around Spring last year, a bit before any of the other
departments. The start of the process is a really fun period, when you're
looking through the new rules, thrashing out ideas and trying to find
loopholes."

Lewis Butler, Chief Designer: "The biggest design challenge was trying to
package everything a bit smaller. We were trying to get that area around the
driver really tight so the aerodynamicists were happy with it."

Elliot Dason-Barber, Head of R&D and Vehicle Dynamics: "We're definitely
going to take a step forward with this car. Quite how much we'll close the
gap to the teams in front of us we'll see, but my hope is we'll be competing
with the teams that were a second or two ahead of us last season."

Keith Saunt, Chief Operating Officer: "You can just see that this car will
be faster than last year's. It's got the right sweeps and curves on it -
it's the very latest iteration of what an F1 car should be."

Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "I think that basically this car
looks like a front-running car in every area. We said very clearly that we
want to start challenging the established teams and I think that's very
achievable."

Riad Asmat, Chief Executive Officer: "T128 takes Team Lotus in exactly the
right direction. We have said since day one of the Team Lotus dream that the
plan for our second year was to take the fight to the midfield, and with
this car we are all confident that is what we will be able to do."

Team Principal Tony Fernandes: "There has been so much focus off-track it's
a thrill to be able to get back to talking about racing. The launch of the
T128 is a big step forward for Team Lotus and I want to thank the whole team
for the amount of hard work that has already gone into the car, and I want
to thank Renault and Red Bull Technology for their tremendous support in
helping us make this step forward and for being such great team partners."